Happy World Doula Week! Meet Molly McConnell, a full-spectrum doula trained through DTI, living and working in Texas.

It's time (and has been time) for doula organizations and training groups led by white and non-Indigenous leaders to retire rebozo education.

Happy World Doula Week! Meet Telisha Woodfin, a postpartum doula trained through DTI, living and working in Virginia.

Here are five lessons that have marked the last ten years of Doula Trainings International for our founders, Gina Giordano and Tara Brooke.

When it comes to reproductive health, much of the work we do today started with the profound contributions that Black reproductive advocates, revolutionaries and activists have made on doula work and midwifery.

In 2020, we announced our intentions to examine the foundations of DTI and move toward hiring a new Programs Director. We’ve been working toward this change for a while. Our founders, Tara Brooke and Gina Giordano, have been serving as our co-directors since DTI got its start in 2011, and 2021 is officially our tenth […]

If you're just starting out in reproductive health, you're probably wondering where to start. At DTI, we offer three core trainings for doula work—a birth, postpartum and full-spectrum doula training, which each run for 12 months.

Whether you’ve taken a training with DTI or are just now getting started with your doula journey, you may not know some of the core members of our educational team. Over the years, we’ve worked with a spectrum of educators and facilitators to make our trainings possible, and this year, we’re proud to introduce our […]

A few weeks ago, we published our first-ever Digital Doula Course—a free virtual offering exploring the pivots we all made in 2020. The following questions are pulled from that courses and its visual guide. Reflect on them, write to them, dream to them. We’ll be reflecting on these questions, too, as we head into the […]

We want to thank our community, our team, our trainees and educators and our collaborators for continuing to work with us online—against all odds.